The Significance of Telescopes in the Renaissance significance
However Lippershy's telescope was the first invented but was not the first to be used for astronomical observation. Galileo, now a famous figure in astronomy, heard of the invention of the telescope and created his own modeled after Lippershy's. This ended up becoming the first telescope usable for astronomical observations and led Galileo to believe that Copernicus' theory was more than just an alternative to the Ptolemaic approach for calculating the positions of the planets. Galileo saw that Jupiter had moons and was thus a mini model of the solar system in itself, that Venus had phases similar to that of the moon, and that the moon had mountains as earth does.
Coppernicus' theaory of the universe
Galileo's discoveries made him a threat to the church and Christianity, changing the beliefs of those who had always believed what the church told them. At the age of sixty-eight he was tried by the Inquisition and sentenced to a life of house arrest for supporting Coppernicus' theories. During the time he spent in solitude, Galileo developed mechanics that allowed him to explain why the planets would not fall into the sun if they were not held up by their "natural place".
Galileo's use of the telescope, and numerous discoveries, are an example of humans pushing the limits and evidently discovering what the world around them consists of and where they stand in it. Aye... Am so sorry, i deleted the first part. You know what that means?
significance
However Lippershy's telescope was the first invented but was not the first to be used for astronomical observation. Galileo, now a famous figure in astronomy, heard of the invention of the telescope and created his own modeled after Lippershy's. This ended up becoming the first telescope usable for astronomical observations and led Galileo to believe that Copernicus' theory was more than just an alternative to the Ptolemaic approach for calculating the positions of the planets. Galileo saw that Jupiter had moons and was thus a mini model of the solar system in itself, that Venus had phases similar to that of the moon, and that the moon had mountains as earth does.
Galileo's discoveries made him a threat to the church and Christianity, changing the beliefs of those who had always believed what the church told them. At the age of sixty-eight he was tried by the Inquisition and sentenced to a life of house arrest for supporting Coppernicus' theories. During the time he spent in solitude, Galileo developed mechanics that allowed him to explain why the planets would not fall into the sun if they were not held up by their "natural place".
Galileo's use of the telescope, and numerous discoveries, are an example of humans pushing the limits and evidently discovering what the world around them consists of and where they stand in it. Aye... Am so sorry, i deleted the first part. You know what that means?
Sources
http://www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us/RenAissance/University/Inventions/Telescope.html
http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Sciences/Physics/aboutphysics/Briefhistory/Renaissance.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescope
Christianity